Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN EVIDENCE ACT 1994 - SECT 38

                   If a foreign public document is not subject to a requirement of legalisation, an Australian court, or a person performing a function or exercising a power under an Australian law, must not require a certificate issued under the Convention to be placed on or annexed to the foreign public document in order to certify:

                     (a)  the authenticity of the signature on the foreign public document; and

                     (b)  the capacity in which the person signing the foreign public document has acted; and

                     (c)  where appropriate, the identity of the seal or stamp that the foreign public document bears.